SAS in Leaders’ Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

SAS, the leader in business intelligence, has been placed in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008,¹ by Gartner, Inc.

“SAS customers clearly embrace our vision,” said Jim Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at SAS. “We not only offer a robust platform, but also business-specific applications, such as financial services fraud detection and retail merchandise replenishment, that fully exploit SAS’ power.”

According to Gartner, “Leaders are vendors that are reasonably strong in the breadth and depth of their BI platform capabilities, and can deliver on enterprisewide implementations that support a broad BI strategy. Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver on a global basis."

With award-winning analytics and data integration, SAS® Business Intelligence helps organizations, including 96 of the Fortune 100, understand the past, monitor the present and quickly predict outcomes to meet any performance objective, such as maximizing shareholder value, predicting inventory levels or monitoring defects.

“SAS offers an unmatched breadth of capabilities now deployed at over 43,000 customer sites worldwide,” said Davis. “SAS innovation continues with new, powerful visualization capabilities. Now, customers can view information in highly intuitive, visual formats. Our visualization takes analytics to the next level,” said Davis.

SAS also speeds delivery of business intelligence throughout all levels of organizations. The SAS In-Database initiative, announced with Teradata Corp., will enable businesses to run and optimize key aspects of SAS business intelligence solutions and analytic processes within leading relational database systems. The result? Decision makers will have faster access to results, and better insights.

“SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform is a powerful resource for our teachers,” said Jim Hirsch, Associate Superintendent, Academic and Technology Services, Plano (Texas) Independent School District. “Because SAS is powerful, yet simple to use, teachers don’t guess how to maximize student success; they now analyze individual student strengths and know what curricula will produce results. This greatly increases our effectiveness.”